Skepticism

EVENTS

Eclipsed!

I knew this whole network thing was a bad idea — all the great writers here sometimes make readers forget that I’m supposed to be the &star;star&star;. The other day, Taslima Nasrin got more traffic that day than I did, all for this horrific post (warning, very chilling, with many photos of woman mutilated by acid). And then that odious twit, JohnTheOther, picked up on it and started ranting about how evil Taslima was, on his psycho MRA site, AVoiceForMen (nope, not linking there). Furious denunciations from demented sociopaths and lots of attention to the criminal abuse of women around the world? Good work, Taslima!

And then Ophelia Benson hit the two million page views mark (just since joining FtB). Way to grow, Ophelia!

And now Jason is bragging that he he has fans who give him free beer in my presence. I’d congratulate him too, but I’m too busy clinging to the tattered, fading fragments of my fame and weeping.

Me. James Mason. A Star is Born. And everyone else on FtB is Judy Garland.

He even took time out from his victim complex ranting to go after the mistakes she sometimes makes when writing in English! Class act indeed!

The MRM is already a nonsensical fuck-poop; even if eloquent proponents could be found it would still be a bitter, twisted, reactionary piece of shit that only the most psychotic and sociopathic could possibly buy into. Why these idiots choose to compound the abject failure of their position by allowing vile, privileged, frustrated white man-children to use the MRM as a flagpole from which to wave their little sexual grievances is beyond me.

Then again maybe he’ll surprise me and put out a post next week in flawless Bangla. If he had any shame at all he would at least give it a try.

Nice work to the thriving FTB community! I find it seriously thrilling to think that there are millions of readers checking out these blogs. Thanks for letting us know. This sort of reminder helps keep up the spirits in the face of the daily waves of wingnuttery.

I rather suspect, PZ, that you love the fact that there are so many talented voices. I suspect that you look at all of this and feel a sense of satisfaction that the future of the freethought movement is in such good hands.

Hah! if I could be bothered to step down from Mount Olympus to deign to waste my holy time to write such a plebeian thing as a web log, your puny network with it’s loser-like millions of hits would be shunted aside like so much dross. Why I’d mop the floor with you! You’d need a new Leica rangefinder camera to even see the ground from the massive heights of greatness that I would spew forth onto teh innertubes. My superiority would occlude such low-brow screeds as get promulgated hereabouts. Cousins of famous people who once waved at me in a parade would leave comments!
Why I’d be able to finally give the downtrodden a voice! but no, I’m too busy conducting my experiments with balloon animals filled with honey, when I’m not divining the true nature of particle physics with my Parcheesi set and a Ouija board.
(I am unable to continue further, can’t keep a straight face)

Since you moved to FTB I’ve read Pharyngula less. It’s not because I’ve gone off it, it’s just now I read a few other blogs regularly I don’t always have time to keep up with all your numerous posts per day.

The focus of the post is on stereotyping perpetrators of that type of crime as men. In the course of taslima’s research she certainly had to ignore a lot of non man-on-woman cases of throwing-acid-in-the-face in order to fit the narrative. Replace the word “men” with “muslims” or any other protected group in that post and you get instant hate-speech. This is one rare instance where the MRAs are right to be annoyed by a crappy post.